European Athletics Championships 1950 / men's high jump

4. European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's high jump
city	Brussels
Stadion	Heysel Stadium
Attendees	11 athletes from 8 countries
Competition phase	August 25 (qualifying) August 27 (final)
Medalist
gold	Alan Paterson ( GBR )
silver	Arne Åhman ( SWE )
bronze	Claude Bernard ( FRA )

The Heysel Stadium in Brussels in an aerial photo from 1935

The men's high jump at the 1950 European Athletics Championships was held on August 25 and 27, 1950 in the Heysel Stadium in the Belgian capital, Brussels .

European champion was the British European Championship runner-up from 1946 Alan Paterson . He won before the Swedish triple jump Olympic champion in 1948 Arne Åhman . Bronze went to the French Claude Bernard.

Existing records

World record	2.11 m	Lester Steers	Los Angeles , USA	June 7, 1942
European record	2.04 m	Kalevi Kotkas	Gothenburg , Sweden	September 1, 1936
Championship record	2.00 m		EM Turin , Italy	September 7, 1934

Kalevi Kotkas' European Championship record, which had existed since the first European Championships in 1934, remained unchanged here in Brussels.

qualification

August 25, 1950, 6.15 p.m.

The eleven participants took part in a joint qualifying round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 1.90 m. Since only five jumpers jumped this height (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best jumpers to ten athletes (highlighted in light green). So finally 1.85 m was enough for the final. With a skipped 1.80 m, only one athlete was eliminated.

Ron Pavitt ( right ) was the only high jumper to drop out of the qualification

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Arne Åhman	Sweden	1.90
	Georges Mitio	France	1.90 SB
	Alan Paterson	Great Britain	1.90
	Hans Wahli	Switzerland	1.90 PBe
	Jacques Delelienne	Belgium	1.90 PB
6th	Gosta Svensson	Sweden	1.85
	Claude Bernard	France	1.85
	Walter Herssens	Belgium	1.85 PB
	Mihajlo Dimitrijević	Yugoslavia	1.85 PB
	Yuri Ilyasov	Soviet Union	1.85 PB
11	Ron Pavitt	Great Britain	1.80 PB

final

The 1948 triple jump Olympic champion Arne Åhman became vice European champion

August 27, 1950

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Alan Paterson	Great Britain	1.96 PBe
2	Arne Åhman	Sweden	1.93 PB
3	Claude Bernard	France	1.93 PB
4th	Hans Wahli	Switzerland	1.90 PBe
5	Gosta Svensson	Sweden	1.90 SB
6th	Georges Mitio	France	1.90 SBe
7th	Jacques Delelienne	Belgium	1.85
8th	Yuri Ilyasov	Soviet Union	1.85 PBe
9	Mihajlo Dimitrijević	Yugoslavia	1.85 PBe
10	Walter Herssens	Belgium	1.85

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  Gösta Svensson came in fifth

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  Georges Mitio came in sixth place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Brussels 1950 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed on March 30, 2019
• Men High Jump European Championship 1950 Brussels on todor66.com, accessed March 30, 2019
• IV European Championship, Brussels 1950 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on March 30, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1950, high jump men on sportschau.de, accessed on March 30, 2019
• 4th European Athletics Championships 1950 in Brussels, Belgium from ifosta.de, accessed on March 30, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. High jump , accessed March 30, 2019
2. ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. High Jump on rfea.es, p. 20 (PDF), accessed on April 7, 2019